a clump on yer' shoe and drug into the house would bring misery.
BULL PUCKEY !!! I'll show 'em who wears the pants in my house, (looks over left shoulder ). I'll show y'all who commandeers the ship in my world, (looks over right shoulder) .
a clump on yer' shoe and drug into the house would bring misery.
i had no idea everyone was so afraid to get a lttle dirt or grease on them...
I could only imagine if we ignored all the zerks on our chippers. I don't recall ever wearing anything out from grease.
We build two log splitters 30 years ago and one pushed the wedge no grease points and the other had the wedge on the beam with grease points on the pusher I broke the one that pushed the wedge last fall I couldn't believe how worn the slid was that hadn't been greased. Took the one apart that had been greased and the slid and beam still measure new.
Second, I seriously doubt the grease zerks on a slide are there for reducing wear. Rather the grease is for reducing bind and friction when the slide "cocks" under pressure, which would rob power from the machine... and even that's debatable, the sort of pressure required to "cock" the slide would only be for a moment, not the full length of travel (under normal use anyway).
filthy grease on clothes is silly, it don't wash out. Near everything else associated with making firewood will wash out
It is like everything it is your choice. We put grease fittings on the one we fixed. We don't use a lot of grease. We will see in the next thirty years. LOL.OK... my splitter is also over thirty years old. It uses aluminum alloy guides on the slide, it's never been greased, and there ain't any visible wear on the guides.
So was it the lack of grease that caused one of yours to wear more than the other?? Or was it the set-up (like placement of the wedge)?? Or was it something else??
Unless the two were identical in build, and used identically over the years... you can only guess that the grease reduced wear... only guess.
Heck, one could have been built with softer or harder steel, or with the ram not perfectly aligned.
The spindle pivots on my old JD lawn tractor were always greased regular, but the right side wore-out at about 12 years of use and I had to replace it... the left side is now over 20 years old and still tight as new, the right side is sloppy again. Both have always been greased, yet the right side wears-out and the left don't. Why?? Well, I'm quessin' it's because I mow my yard counterclockwise (meaning near 95% left hand turns) which puts more pressure (a lot more) on the right hand (outboard in the turn) spindle.
Yeah, maybe one splitter beam and slide wore more because of no grease... but then again, how can you know for sure if they ain't set-up identically?? See, ya' flat can't know.
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Pivot points on excavators are fixed points that have constant movement and extreme pressure. The beams surface area is much larger therefore much less wear. Greasing a splitter beam is like greasing the cutting edge of a dozer you just don't do it. We will all be dead before that I beam wears out.First, I doubt anyone is "afraid" to get grease on themselves... but unnecessarily getting used, filthy grease on clothes is silly, it don't wash out. Near everything else associated with making firewood will wash out. Having dirty grease smeared along the full length of the open beam just flat means you're gonna' lean up against it at some point... it-is-what-it-is. It's also gonna' get on the wood being split... the same wood you might be handling next month with with you're not-so-grubby clothes on.
Second, I seriously doubt the grease zerks on a slide are there for reducing wear. Rather the grease is for reducing bind and friction when the slide "cocks" under pressure, which would rob power from the machine... and even that's debatable, the sort of pressure required to "cock" the slide would only be for a moment, not the full length of travel (under normal use anyway).
And loader/excavator arm/bucket pivot points are under extreme pressure during most times of motion... even moving slowly the metal would gall without some sort of lubrication... apples to oranges.
Greasing the slide certainly won't hurt anything... but, then again, not greasing likely won't either. In my mind, using dry lubes such as graphite is just a waste of dry lube... they're near worthless under pressure (like when the slide "cocks"), which is really the only time lube would be of any mechanical benefit.
But hey... (shrug)... what do I know?? I'm just a hick back-yard engineer that dropped out'a high school.
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Greasing a splitter beam is like greasing the cutting edge of a dozer you just don't do it. We will all be dead before that I beam wears out.
For everybody that greases the beam make sure that you are also applying grease to the spliting wedge, you don't want it to wear out either. Ha just seems like a waste of timeApparently Timber Wolf "thinks" they know more about this than you do...
My splitter is getting a light film of grease on the edge of the beam, as grease is very cheap...
SR
the top side of the beam may have lots of surface area, but the keepers/guides dont ...Pivot points on excavators are fixed points that have constant movement and extreme pressure. The beams surface area is much larger therefore much less wear. Greasing a splitter beam is like greasing the cutting edge of a dozer you just don't do it. We will all be dead before that I beam wears out.
nope no need (with mine anyway) wedge is hard faced, ill never need to sharpen again,For everybody that greases the beam make sure that you are also applying grease to the spliting wedge, you don't want it to wear out either. Ha just seems like a waste of time
Actually some excavators now are grease less, specifically ditchwitch. They use a special plastic bushings and seals on the pin. Works very well. Most other high quality excavators if greased use seals on the pins as well now to keep the dirt out of the pivot point. Also the older ones without seals recommended purging the joint daily with grease to flush out any dirt. If this was not done it would result in new pins and bushing with some frequency. Flushing dirty grease out of a log splitter would be somewhat of a challenge I would imagine. Of course most logs don't have the sand on them, probably depends on local. Around here its just clay.how about loader/excavator arm/bucket pivot points, those see a hell of alot more dirt than a splitter, yet no one would argure weather or not to grease them, and those move much slower than a splitter slide....
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